today'sast stop on c-span cities to her in lincoln, nebraska, is the williams jennings bryan house, where the three-time president of 1902-1914.ived from >> the only republic, resting superior from the mountain of a terminal truth. all men are created equal, they are endowed with unalienable , and that government derived of just powers from the consent of the governed. why am jennings bryan is one of nebraska's most famous and prominent politicians and he is probably most famous for the fact that he was nominated three partyby the democratic but he lost the election all three times. he moved to lincoln in 1887. he was a lawyer in central illinois. he went into kansas to connect -- collect some debts and thought he would stop in lincoln to visit an old law school friend from the law school in chicago. he saw where lincoln and the state of nebraska were just booming, some of the fastest growing areas in the country at the time. he felt weak democratic parties a week democratic party. he started construction of this house in 1901. they fell in love with the hill the house is built on so they

announcer: tomorrow, the c-span city's port stays in colorado springs or the literary life of the city. that begins at 6:00 p.m. here on c-span. c-span is marking the 10th anniversary of hurricane katrina this week with special programming. tomorrow night, scenes from new orleans one year after the storm, and then tore hurricane damage and speaking with those on the ground. here is some of what you will see tomorrow night. not really for us to say should it be rebuilt or not rebuilt. i think it is reasonable to ask that we have a flood protection system that is going to work. when you see this, and we -- just a few blocks up the road, there is holy cross, with all of that vacant housing, you would things first.irst maybe get people to higher ground, because that house cannot be rebuilt. it is not possible. that.u can still smell you will notice it later when somebody tells you you smell bad, because you end up smelling bad after you have been here.

announcer: the c-span cities hear around the nation to from local historians, authors, and civic leaders every other weekend on c-span book tv and american history tv on c-span3, and this month with congress on its summer recess, it is on c-span each day at 6:00 p.m. eastern. today, we look at the history of core a lot of springs -- of colorado springs, and we start pikes peak, named for the explorer. have for as long as people lived here, pike's peak has been a marketing tool, and we have used it to help identify this location. pikes peak protrudes out onto the eastern plains. as wethe first 14-er, call it, the first 14,000-foot mountain when you are coming west across the plains towards denver, and that is a beacon, in many ways, for people traveling towards the mountains. i remember many times, growing up in the midwest, coming to colorado and know when you're almost there when you start to the distance.k in you can see it a hundred or more and it seems here, to pull you in as you're coming west. now, we are at crystal reservoir on the pike's peak highway. we are about 9500 feet in an

announcer: watch the city's tour on the c-span network. to see where we are going next visit our schedule. coming up shortly, new jersey governor chris christie is holding a town hall meeting at in new tavern and of boston, new hampshire. we will take you there live when it gets underway. we will here in -- from the governor in about 20 minutes. cover governor christie live saturday as part of our coverage of presidential candidates of the iowa state fair. the gop presidential candidate will take the traditional des moines soapbox stage saturday at noon live on c-span. meanwhile politicos writing that hillary clinton's local campaign is stepping up their response to questions about her using an unsecured e-mail server to communicate classified information with a when she was secretary of state. her campaign pointed to a just-released conversation that happened in 1974 between secretary of state kissinger and cia director, william colby. the state department redacted parts of the conversation they said were classified as national security i

. >> we close out the c-span cities tour of fort lauderdale with a visit to the alex haley exhibit at the cultural center. he was the author of roots, the son of an american family, and co-author of the autobiography of mathematics, and a winner to -- a winner of the pulitzer prize -- the autobiography of malcolm x. and a winner of the flow surprised in literature. >> after two years of production, we present this incredible saga in an epic motion picture "roots," the current number one best-selling novel is also a picture. >> we are a unique nomination of a library a's, a special collection of archives, which are here right now and a cultural center. we are about to look at the alex haley papers. it is only a portion of his entire estate, or belongings that were auctioned off upon his death. some of it went off to private buyers. the university of tennessee also has quite a large portion of it. the alex haley papers were actually purchased by our library system a little over 13 years ago. once alex haley passed away, unfortunately his estate auction off all of his belongings. and the

. >> now look at highlights of the c-span cities tour as we learn about the history of the cities and towns across america in cooperation with her cable partners. to learn more about the stops on our 2015 tour, visit www.c-span.org/citiestour. ♪ >> where standing in the main waiting room of union station here in omaha, nebraska. it was a second union station built by union pacific to serve the citizens of omaha for real travel. the architects wanted to make a statement about what the railroad was. in his mind, it was strength, masculinity, and permits. that's what you want is a building to embody. all my heart really started out as a front your town -- front tier town. --izens of council bluff they needed to nowhere. have a better chance of having this railroad if we have a city on the opposite side of the river already established and ready to built that's where they the railroad, and it works. council bluffs didn't really think that omaha would get better -- get bigger than council bluffs. cities on the west side of the river tended to move west. union pacific is one of the premier

continue c-span cities tour with a visit to galveston, texas, starting at 6:00 eastern. we'll tour an 1877 merchant sailing ship and we will hear about the juneteenth juneteenth celebration in the end of slavery. we will also hear back from hurricane ike and the destruction in 2000 eight. this afternoon it is at 6:00 eastern time. president obama was in new orleans yesterday to mark the 10 year anniversary of hurricane katrina. coordinating the flooding was in the worldwide. i talk with residents also came. [applause]

. >> now look at highlights of the c-span cities tour as we learn about the history of the cities and towns across america in cooperation with her cable partners. to learn more about the stops on our 2015 tour, visit www.c-span.org/citiestour. ♪ >> where standing in the main waiting room of union station here in omaha, nebraska. it was a second union station built by union pacific to serve the citizens of omaha for real travel. the architects wanted to make a statement about what the

the history museum. >> throughout the weekend, american history tv featuring highlights from c-span's citiesour week on the road to learn about american history. learn more about these cities at /citiestour.rg you're watching american history tv. all weekend, every weekend, on c-span3. at 8:00 p.m. eastern time on sunday night, throughout the rest of the year. series anduce the cooperation at the white house historical association. experts,rsations with video tours of historic sites, and questions from c-span's

c-span's duende. >> over the next hour, the c-span city store visits fort lauderdale. we will hear from authors of nolks about the semi indians, the florida intracoastal waterwaye, and spain's role in the revolutionary war. but first, we start with charles , author of then struggle for a more perfect union. understandu cannot thurgood marshall if you do not understand that he is not just a black man, but also a lawyer. of law shapes his perception the world as much as the color of us. her good used to say, i do not need to put my hand in front of my face to know what color i am. he knew he was black. he had grown up in a jim crow south. he has seen and traveled right , the law school destruction of the community segregation brought about. but at the same time, he had the lawyer's lens by which he understood the situations and he gave them away to fight back. he further believed in the law. he believed in the constitution. he believed the american legal political can't do shall system was fundamentally -- the political constitutional system was fundamentally sound, but

c-span 2's book t.v. and c-span 3's american history t.v. this month, with congress on its summer recess, the city tours is on c-span each day at 6 p.m. eastern. >> hey... look at me. hurry! come on! come on! wait for it. wait for it. wait for it. >> welcome to galveston on book t.v. located on an island off the gulf coast of texas, it was the main port for the texas navy during the texas revolution and served as the provisional capital of the republic of texas. today it's visited by over six million tourists. with the help of our cable partners, we'll learn about the history of this coastal city from local authors. we begin with casey greene on the 1900 storm that decimated galveston. ♪[music]♪ >> the 1900 storm struck galveston saturday, september 8 1900. the storm began at noon increased in dramatic intensity and then finally tapered off toward midnight that evening. this hurricane was and still is the deadliest recorded natural event in the history of the united states. the destruction totaled about $28 to $30 million. certainly it was a destructive hurricane. there was major damage. but the d

c-span's series, "first ladies." from martha washington to michelle obama. sundays at 8:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span 3. sees -- this year, c-span is touring cities across thecountry and exploring history. this week we are in a gusto, georgia. you're watching american history tv all weekend, every weekend on c-span 3. >> the augusta canal is a man-made waterway. the water comes from the savannah river, our main river here. it travels to town in about 7.5 miles. here, the son of the first mayor of augusta was in massachusetts and saw how they built the canal and how they built the mills. augusta's economics came to a standstill. people are leaving town to go out west. he says, we have to think of something. said,ught of lowell and we can do this. we can build a canal and pull that savannah river and bring high so it canp flow and we can bring in job. the canal was his main purpose was hydropower. a second use was travel. there were long barges bringing goods to town. they had to shoot the rapids of the river. as the river drop, there were rapids down the river. they were very pleased when it was built for hydropower. they had a nice, smooth ride.

we will have hit 95 cities in april 2016. >> most of the programming on c-span is event coverage. these are not event coverage types of pieces. they take you someplace. to a home, a historic site. >> we partner with our cable partners to explore the cultural history of various cities. >> the cable operator contact the city. it is the cable industry bringing us there. >> we are looking for great characters. you want your viewers to identify these people we're talking about. >> we are taking people on the road to places where they can touch things, see things, and learn about -- you know, it's not just the local history. a lot of local history plays into the national story. somebody is watching, it should be enticing enough that they will get the idea of the story, but also feel, this is in our backyard. you get a sense that i know that , just by watching this. you have to be up to communicate the message about in order to do this job. it has done the one thing we wanted it to do which is to build relationships with our city and cable partners and have great programming. >> watch on

we will have hit 95 cities in april of 2016. >> most of our c-span is event coverage. these are not event coverage type of pieces. they're shorter. they take you some place. they take you to a home, a historic site. >> we partner with our cable affiliate to explore the history and literary culture of various cities. >> the key entry into the city is the cable operator who contacts the city. in essence, it's the cable industry bringing us there. >> they're really looking for great characters. you really want your viewers to be able to identify with these people that we're talking about. >> it's an experiential type of program where we're taking people on the road to places where they can touch things, see things, and learn about not just the local history, because a lot of local history plays into the national story. >> if somebody is watching this, it should be enticing enough that they can get the idea of the story. but also this is just in our backyard. let's go and see it. >> we want viewers to get a sense that, oh, yeah, i know that place just from watching one of

this month, with congress on its summer recess, city stores -- city tour is on c-span at 6:00 p.m. eastern. today we look at lincoln, the brassica -- lincoln, nebraska. c-spant the sea pants -- city tour with a look at 1886-1912.s from ♪ >> they came to this beautiful country and beautiful days, full of energy and vision. rich beyond our dreams. it is everything that makes life worthwhile. i don't know how large bank accounts the older settlers have to say, and i don't care. be as rich as i felt when i settled on my homestead. i remember the time i did not have money to buy a postage stamp. i remember the hard winter and the many obstacles to overcome. we came here to win a battle and we did. to what amount those inconveniences compared to the joy we felt when we turned the long furloughs of virgin soil and find the first trees, we were empire builders and the future was ours. solomon butcher was a pioneering photographer in custer county in western nebraska. he took photos from about 1887 until the early 1890's of homesteaders and saw houses and was able to tell the story of this i

c-span radio at 90.1 fm in the washington dc area. online at c-span.org. download our c-span radio app. herhe c-span cities to visits literary and historic sites across the nation every other weekend on c-span2's book tv and c-span3's american history tv. this month with congress on its summer resource -- summer recess, the city tour is on --pan each day at 6:00 a.m. p.m. eastern. >> welcome to austin on american history tv. with help from our car mourner -- time warner cable partners, we will explore the city of the capital of texas. austin is referred to as the live music capital of the world because of the venues in the city. it has a population just under one million. ofe a behind the scenes tour the presidential suite at the lyndon johnson presidential library and museum. didsuite looks just as it with the former president roamed its halls. >> the space is really a living, breathing artifact. it has not changed at all since president johnson died in january 1973. >> later, visit the texas state capitol, the only state capital that can boast it is taller than the united states capitol in washington. >>

up next on the c-span cities tour, the director of the texas corrections shares some of the items. >> can see there are numerous mountain ranges that crop up and there aren't these mountain ranges. the problem with the misrepresentation is that many of the map makers would not have to texas and they would earlieried or used cartographer's information. relayed from an earlier one. now, you can see how beautifully done the eastern part of the is with the mountains in the proper place and the when youan area but get to the center of the country, it certainly is wilderness. another thought is that this is early maps that begin to show the concept of manifest destiny, the going west growing. this next piece that i want to really a travel diary or journal. by mary austin holly who is the niece of steven f. austin. and when she travels to texas, 1836 andrinted in there is a beautiful map. it's small. it's a foldout map. but it's a map of the state of you can and texas and see what you would say austin's colony and the others that are laid out. it'soloration on this map, hand done. it wouldn'

c-span's q&a. >>> so far this year, the c-span's cities tour along with our cable affiliates has visited over a dozen cities across the country, revealing their unique history and literary life. this weekend will showcase some of the places we've been in 2015. >> one day, when i see had perhaps nine hours of flying, he told me to pull over on the tarmac when i landed and he started getting out of the airplane. and he told me it was time for me to take it around by myself. when i took off that time, and i got up to about 500 feet where i'm supposed to level off, when i started to push forward on that stick to level off, it came off in my hand. so i grabbed my seat belt off and i left the throttle wide open. i leaned across the front seat and with the tips of my fingers, i started pushing forward on the front stick. it started lowering the nose of the airplane. so then i climbed over into the front seat, but i made a fairley smooth landing. and he said, what in the hell are you doing in the front seat? and i just pointed to that stick, which is like the stick that you fly the airplane with and it was o

land was made for you and me ♪ weekend,hout the american history tv as featuring highlights from c-span's citiesearn about american history. learn more about the cities that c-span.org/cities tour. you are watching american history tv all weekend, every weekend on c-span 3. you are watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span 3. to join the conversation, like us on facebook @c-span history. tv'sweek, american history brings you films that tell the story of the 20th century. [no audio[ ] audio] follow the c-span cities tour as we travel outside the washington beltway to communities across america. >> the idea is to take the programming for htv, american history television, and book tv beyond the beltway. to produce pieces that are more visual and provide a window into the cities that viewers would not normally go to that have really rich histories and a rich literary scene as well. >> a lot of people have heard the history of the big cities like new york, l.a., chicago, but what about albany, new york? >> we have been to over 75 cities. we will have hit 95 cities in april 20

c-span's book tv and american history tv on c-span 3. and this month with congress on summer recess the cities tour is on c-span each day at 6:00 p.m. eastern. today we head to key west, florida, and visit the earnest hemingway house and learn about the jewish history and talk with the author of a book called quit your job and move to key west, the complete guide. >>> now a look at the history of the gridiron club dinner. starting in 1885 the event features journalists and politicians and government officials. the president usually attends. clarence page talks more about the dinner, usually held each spring in washington. >> clarence page, a columnist for the chicago tribune and the president of the gridiron club this year. let's talk about the club itself. who are its members, what is its mission and how do you become a member? >> the club itself was started in 1885 by a newspaper reporters here in washington who i like to think started the club because the proper societies of washington wouldn't let them join their clubs. it started with three reporters from philadelphia, as i understand. and ever since then, at that time, the act

. >> the c-span cities tour continues tomorrow with a history of fort lauderdale, florida. that's on c-span at 6:00 p.m. eastern. >> this month, c-span radio takes you to the movies. r supreme court cases that have played a popular part in movies. "woman in gold." >> the can of worms argument. we recommend opening the can, extracting one little worm with a pair of tweezers and then clicking it shut again. >> "the people versus larry flynt you." sue whenry falwell can there has been no libelous speech, purely on the grounds of emotional distress, so can other public figures. the watergate case from "all the president's men." >> who are the lawyers for the five men arrested in watergate? do you know? >> these two were appointed. >> the burglars have their own counsel. >> the burglars have their own counsel? >> that's right. >> kind of unusual, wouldn't you say? >> the burglars are unusual. >> do you know the name of the council? >> i don't know. some country club types. and the film about the loving struck down the ban of interracial marriage. are handling a major civil rights

c-span 3. to join the conversation, like us on facebook. now, a look at highlights of the c-span city store, as we learn about the history of cities and towns across america, in cooperation with our cable partners. to learn more about our stops on our tour, visit c-span.org. ♪ >> we are standing in the main waiting room of union station in omaha, nebraska. it is an art deco building built in 1931. architects wanted to make a statement about what the railroad was. in his mind, it was things, masculinity, and permanency. that is what he wanted the a building to an body. embody. omaha started out as a frontier town. citizens decided they wanted to found the city on the site of the river. everybody knew there would be a transcontinental railroad, they just didn't know where. they wanted it to come through their so they would have a better chance of having a railroad if they have a city on the opposite side of the river, already established and ready to go. it worked. council bluffs didn't think omaha would it bigger than council bluffs, because that was an established city. union pacific

the c-span cities tour, visiting cities across the country. this weekend, we are joined by charter communications to learn more about the history of grand junction, colorado. a certain mineral had a long-term importance in this part of colorado. >> all over the colorado plateau, we are surrounded by morrison rock. we find a lot of dinosaur bones, fossils, and that has intrigue scientists for a long time. the other thing we find in the morrison is a rock hard carna tite. it contains radium, which was used by marie curie. is it also includes a mineral, vana dium. carnatite also includes uranium. announcer: a congressman was largely responsible for development through his legislation. >> he fought the bottle to reserve -- the battle to reserve water for western c colorado to make sure we got our fair share. how did he do that? beginning in he is state -- beginning in his state career, he was able to exercise more power than you might normally have. certainly in the united states congress, where he was able to make sure colorado and western colora

. >> more "c-span cities tour" of waco, texas, tomorrow on c-span with a look at the city's starting ate 6:00 p.m. eastern tomorrow, a book about gospel music from the rightsar to the civil movement, the story of the 1917 lynching of a black 17-year-old, history of the first african-americans in the space program. that's tuesday at 6:00 p.m. c-span.on [captions copyright national cable satellite corp, 2015] idea is to take the programming from htv and book of the road beyond the beltway to produce pieces that are a little more visual that provide a window in these city that the viewers wouldn't normally go to that also have really rich history and a rich literary scene as well. >> a lot of people have already citiesistory of the big like new york and l.a., chicago. but what about the smaller ones albany, new york? what's the history of them? to over 75 cities. we will have hit 95 cities in april twist 2016. -- april 2016. >> most of our programming is event coverage. these are not event coverage pieces. they're shorter. they take you someplace. historic you a home, a site. >> we part

. >> c-span city store was in fort lauderdale and we with william crawford about his book "florida's big dig," which details the florida intercoastal waterway. william: it wasn't -- it was built for anybody and everybody. sailors, a lot of sailboats chargers steelers -- there were four principal investors in the waterway and they were all key businessmen in cain augustine. -- saint augustine. they included dr. john wescott who was a medical doctor, a mineralogist, a surveyor. he was everything. in fact, in 1855, he was surveyor general of the whole state of florida. when it came to picking out where the best parcels of land would be in florida, dr. wescott would know they needed about $100,000 in capital. dr. wescott put in $49,000 which in 1881 was a huge sum of money. and the other three put in the balance, $51,000. back then, in order to get a corporation or to get permission to do something, to do almost anything, you had to get a charter from the state legislature. and in 1881, dr. wescott was well known. it had always been his dream especially after having been surveyor general

. >> we close out the c-span cities tour of galveston aboard the texas clipper, now a training ship at the texas maritime academy. was and war ii, it u.s.s.vessel named the queens. >> the texas clipper, which is that it goes by now, is now an artificial reef off the texas.f right near the texas-mexico border. about 30 here for years. and it sailed. there were generations of students that sailed on it. the first training ship. there was texas clipper 2 and clipper 3 afterwards. but it was the first training ship. not born as the texas theper but it was born as u.s.s. escambia. an attack transport during the second world war. 1944, there was tremendous tremendous shipbuilding program out of maryland, not far from baltimore, outside the inner harbor. it was one of those ships that was built in that tremendous shipbuilding program. it was not one of the 90-day wonders. ship,as a high-class because it was intended to a cargo transport passenger carrier after the war was over. so it was built to the specifications of the american export line. the ship comes out in december 1944. it is launch

look atr: now, highlights of the c-span cities were, as we learn about the history of cities and towns across america in cooperation with our cable partners. to learn more about the stops on our 2015 tour, visit --pan.org/citiestwo-hour c-span.org/citiestour. ♪ >> we are standing in the kindergarten room of the monroe school into peaked, kansas, and this was one of the four african-american schools operating into peak of in 1951 .- in topeka the browns the board of browhnon please -- the piece wasf education part of the naacp struggle to overcome discrimination in public education, so they were thatpting to file cases would end up reversing cases, ferguson,ssy versus which allow the state of louisiana to segregate railcars by race, and once the supreme court made the decision that that was constitutional, what you saw was an explosion of loss, and the south, specially, which prevented segregated facilities in all sectors of public life, so the naacp was attempting to overturn that and they knew they could try to do that case, and they began to file cases to begin to chip away at that p

. >> c-span cities tour will be nebraska to learn about omaha. it will start on friday at 6:00 p.m., eastern. >> our congressional series -- inues with mike cost bost. welcome congressman mike bost. i see that there is a marine corps flag on your pin. you are a former firefighter and a beauty shop owner.

now, a look at the highlights of the c-span cities tour, as we look at cities and towns across america in cooperation with our cable partner. about our stops, visit c-span.org/citiestour. julie: this is the augusta canal, and they had seen massachusetts and what they had done and how they had built textile mills, and as augustine augusta's economic growth had hit a standstill because people were leaving town to go out west, he said, we have to do something, and he said, we can do that here. we can build a canal and pull that savanna water in and bring it in high so it can run the mills, and that will give economic growth and jobs, so the canal's main purpose was hydropower, and at that point, hydro mechanical power, but a second point used was for navigation. there were long petersburg boats, these long to canoe-likehese long barges. as the river dropped, there were shoals and rapids to contend with. and very dangerous trip down the river, so they were very pleased. they could have a nice, smooth ride to town. well, as the civil war began, the need for gunpowder was a onemost importanc

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posted by our comcast cable partners c-span's cities to our staff recently visited many sites showcasing the city's history. learn more about a gusto all weekend here on american history tv. >> welcome to the lucy craft laney museum of lack history -- black history. our goal is to promote the legacy of lucy craft laney through art history and the preservation of her home. we carry those tenants back in all that we do.

the c-span cities tour of topeka, kansas, monday at 6:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. >> monday night on, "the communicators," the 20th anniversary of digital television. mark taher discusses how modern television has changed. >> what many of us, and that is increasing every day, are watching is a multi screen world. that has been one of the more exciting outcomes of this whole digital revolution. it used to be there was a stationary screen, and that was a big screen in the living room. with the internet and the wireless world extending things, now you have tablets and smartphones and wi-fi all over the place, such that tv is not just the stationary lean back experience of the living room, but a mobile experience wherever you want to go. it is also video. >> monday night at 8:00 eastern on "the communicators" on c-span 2. >> republican presidential candidate scott walker outline his foreign policy goals on friday in a speech at the citadel in south carolina. the governor called for a no-fly zone over syria, increasing military spending, more gove

. >> throughout the weekend, american history tv is featuring highlights from c-span's cities tour when we go on the road to learn about american history. learn more about the cities at www.c-span.org/citiestour. you are watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. you are watching american history tv, 48 hours of programming on american history every weekend on cspan3. follow us on twitter for information on our schedule of upcoming programs and to keep up with the latest history news. institute for policy's study and into were activist phyllis bennis on u.s. foreign policy since 9/11, the recent negotiations with iran, and the war on terrorists. >> who is isis? what do they believe? why are they so violent? all those questions are important and i address them in the book. what is more important because it is something we can do something about is, what is the u.s. policy regarding isis? why isn't it working? can we go to war against terrorism? wrong or is the war it wrong to say there should be a war against terrorism at all? i think those are the questions that

while we are in galveston, the c-span city tour spoke about the hurricane with the owner of the bookstore. >> we are in storm alert as powerful hurricane ike closes in on the gulf coast. you can probably count the hours before landfall. we're talking on one hand. >> absolutely. but the impacts, of course, evidence for hours now. take a look at these waves crashing over the seawall in galveston, texas. the seawall, about 16 feet tall. so imagine how high these waves are. >> this is truly amazing what ike is dishing out right now! this is the worst we've seen, obviously, for the past two hours or so since we've been here in houston the past two days. the problem about this is -- my goodness! i mean, really! this is mind-blowing what we're witnessing right now and being able to broadcast to you live. i have never witnessed anything like this in my career! >> when we came down here, we tried to be prepared. we bought overalls, shovels first aid kits. and the extent of the damage, you just can never imagine how bad it is. there's no way. the adjustor later determined that we had seven feet of

our comcast, cable partners worked with c-span city tour's staff when we traveled to augusta to explorehe rich history. learn more all weekend here on american history tv. >> welcome to the home of george walton. george walton was born in virginia. in the backwoods. so far in the backwoods that there was no courthouse or church or record of his birth. why is this important? he is it her young man when he signed the declaration, 26. we do not know if he was the youngest. there was a signer from south carolina born in november, we do not know when george was born. he was born in a time between 1749 and 1750. his father had made provisions for education. his father died very close to birth. his mother died when he was seven years old. he was taken into the family of his economical. -- his aunt and uncle. when he turned of age, about 13, he was apprenticed to a carpenter. either he was not a very good carpenter, or more likely he wanted -- he left that apprenticeship in his late teens and came to georgia to study law. he came to study with a prominent lawyer. he was clerk and did very well.

he sat down with the c-span cities tour in key west to talk about his book. is provocative, i guess. i wanted to describe killing, accounts of several murders and cases where game and have been killed by straight men or people who think they are straight or ostensibly straight or identifying as straight at the time. the reason i called it honor killings is because i want to focus on the criminals in this and i wanted to examine the psychology that goes behind all of this. after looking at it very carefully, i decided that was what was at play, the sense of honor young men feel and that was -- it was more the cause of this violence coming from within these guys much more than it was about the victim. number ofly large these cases, much larger than i realized at first. i chose cases from different environments all over the country, different geographical baltimore,fornia, there was one in michigan. south,explored down alabama, oklahoma, obviously. let's take a look at this problem within the united states, but in its various geographical incarnations. had thisa

. >> the c-span cities tour continues monday with a visit to colorado springs.bout explorer zebulon pike, treatment of tuberculosis in colorado springs around the turn of the 20th century, an inventor nikola tesla, who conducted many of his experiments in colorado springs. that is monday on c-span starting at 6:00 p.m. eastern. >> c-span's road to the white house coverage continues as we take you live to the medallion center in south carolina for a town hall meeting with senator bernie sanders of vermont. speak, do q&a, and will also take questions from the c-span audience. this is lie. -- live. . [applause] kaman, you can do better than that. how are you doing? all right. this is the last stop of the evening. we are excited to be in columbia, south carolina. i have the privilege of serving as the national press secretary for bernie 2016. you will be dmc for this evening. is that ok -- i will be your mc for this evening. the man ofing out the hour, i want to chat with you all. america celebrated the 50th anniversary of the voting rights act? the voting rights ac

continue the c-span cities tour with the story of wilmette -- william jackson palmer who helped bring railroads to colorado. ♪ palmer saw possibilities, and i think it might be the mountains that he fell in love with, and it is right up against pike's peak and this wonderful place, that what he saw as the economic driver was the climate and the mountains, and the fact that people's -- people like himself from the atlantic seaboard would be drawn here, so here for a few weeks or a month or to come and visit and decide to stay, that they would be drawn by the helpful climate and in natural beauty, so he saw this place potential. he built colorado springs along the rail line, and then the rail line connected further south, and this town in particular to be his home, and he always saw it as an anecdote, if you will, to eastern industrialization. for this young man who grew up in the second largest city in the entire country, he looked to the west, and we have this vast, open expanse of land, seemingly limitless, and he envisioned a place here where people could come and live warts stay an

up next on the c-span cities tour we take a look at photographs and other items from the exposition. >> the light -- late 1890's, home ome -- omaha is going to be holding an exposition, the trans-mississippi and international exposition that will be happening in omaha june through october of 1898 and this is sort of omaha's opportunity to unveil itself to the rest of the nation and the world as we have now arrived. 're no longer a backwater, clapboard houses on unpaved streets. e have a very large exposition dedicated to the trans-miss. some of the so you have iners you would find, a model of the grand court -- you get a feel of what it would have been like to be be in omaha during that time and some artifacts of things that were entered for competition and that won an award. some of those things are on display as well. really just kind of trying to give people a flavor of what it was like to be here at that time. it was a several year process to get exhibition to omaha and it was really conceived by business leader in an -- by tion calls nebraska spelled backwards. they said we want

all of that here on c-span's road to the white house coverage. >> the c-span cities tour visits literary and historic sites across the nation to hear from local historians, authors and civic leaders, every other 's tv andn c-span2 american history tv. the city tour is on c-span every day at 6:00 p.m. eastern. >> welcome to waco texas on book tv. located on the brazos river, this he was founded in 1849 and soon after, a local suspension bridge was built allowing cattle herds to travel along the chisholm trail to cross the river. today, waco has a population of almost 130,000 people and is the home to taylor university, the oldest institute of higher learning in the state. with the help of our time warner next partners, for the hour, we will learn about its history and seen from local authors. we begin our special feature darden onssor robert the role of gospel music during the civil rights movement. ♪ ♪ >> i can only speak for myself is why i think gospel music resonates to such a degree even now. the music from the 30's and 40's no less than the current gospel artists right now seem to m

. >> and we continue the c-span cities tour of galveston with stephen curley on his book, "celluloid wars: a guide to film and the american experience of war." >> american cinema has had a really profound effect on the way people see war. even from the beginning we understand that war, a vision of war, is for most of us, not having been to war but having heard about war, having seen or having read about war. we're playing images of war. i think sometimes of -- the myth about persuis. athena gave him the shield. he was able to look in the shield and see the reflection of gorgan. and then he could outwit and defeat him. movies are a kind of mirror. they mirror reality. in the beginning most films -- we're talking about now the beginning of cinema itself, 1895, the first recorded films. and they really ran about 60 seconds. this one was an american film called "tearing down the spanish flag 1898". the spanish american war was in the news. people couldn't get enough of it. and imagine being able to see it, being able to be there? well, that wasn't exactly true. they weren't there. what t

. >> up next the c-span city store visits the texas home a writer william sidney porter. while in prison on charges of embezzlement he began writing under the name o. henry. [inaudible] >> william sidney porter was a great american short story writer. he wrote about 300 to 400 short stories and he was known for having swift endings. a good example of which is "the gifts of the magi," about a poor couple who want to buy each other christmas presents. she has this long, luxurious hair that she cuts to buy her husband a fault for his pocket watch. he sells his pocket watch to buy her these combs which she has been coveting for her long hair. a lot of people know o. henry as a new york short story writer. he cut his teeth here in austin starting right here in this house. this has been a museum since 1934. what people can find is a middle-class taos that is three rooms, a parlor, there is a bedroom, and there is a dining room and a porch that used to be called a sleeping porch. he moved to texas in his early 20's from greensboro, north carolina, partly out of wanderlust and pa

. >> up next, on the c-span cities to her, the letters of will encounter, the university of nebraska graduate and novelist who wrote about frontier life on the great plains. >> will encounter is one of the most apparent in writers of the american century. she was given almost every literary award possible in her lifetime before she died except for the nobel prize. when the first american won the nobel prize he went around telling everybody will account or really should have one. she was known for some of her masterpieces like my aunt in the comes for the archbishop, the last lady, and many others. also really important to nebraska, to lincoln and tumor hometown of red cloud nebraska because she went to the university of nebraska lincoln from 1895. she wrote about the risk that in many deaths nebraska in many of her works. influence ona huge literature, both in the united states, and abroad as well. many well-known writers continue to cite her as one of the primary influences. she died in 1947, and in 1943 she had made a well which had a few restrictions in it. one of which was she di

the c-span city's tour visited the guilford courthouse national military park to learn more about the battle. john: we are in greensboro, north carolina at the military port, standing on the battlefield of guilford courthouse. during the revolutionary war, the british had moved their campaign to the southern and had captured georgia and south carolina and were moving into north carolina to try to what they called restore authority, which meant they would conquer the land. ended up hereey at guilford courthouse in the middle of north carolina. 1780 one.ch 15, general nathanael greene, continental army, was pitted against the british army under lord cornwallis. cornwallis was making his march through north carolina, conquering the land and so forth , and general green wanted to stop that. green was george washington's most trusted general. he was picked by general washington to come south and save the southern army, because the southern army had lost two major battles at trial stan camden, south carolina, lost many men, and there were very few soldiers left. general washington sent john

cities april 2016. of programming on c-span is event coverage. these take you to a home, i historic site. announcer: we partner with our cable affiliates to explore the literary culture of various. >> cities>> the key entry to the cities is the cable operator with and contacts the city. in essence, it is the cable industry bringing us there. >> they are really looking for great characters. you really want your viewers to be able to identify with these people that we are talking about. >> it is an experience i'll type of program where we are taking people on the road to places where they can touch things, see things, and learn about -- you know, it is not just about the local history. a lot it should be enticing enough that we get the idea of the oury and feel like it is in backyard. >> want the viewers to get a sense of that from watching the pieces. >> the mission, as with all of the coverage, it goes into the road. >> you have to believe in the message of the network to do the job. it is a thing that we want it to do. we want to gather some great programming for american history televisi

. >> we close out the c-span city's tour of columbus, georgia with a visit to the chattahoochee legacy exhibit at the columbus museum. we will hear about civil war era clothing, a textile loom used in the city's industrial boom, and blind tom, a slave and musical prodigy. rebecca: we are here at the columbus museum in columbus, georgia. currently we're standing in our chattahoochee legacy gallery. this is our permanent gallery that focuses on the history of columbus and its many highlights , from the prehistoric period 10,000 years ago up to the 1970's, even moving forward into the columbus we know today. standing in the portion of the legacy gallery that deals with the civil war. columbus was a significant city during the war for many reasons, not least of which was that it was the second largest manufacturing center for the confederacy, second only to the confederate capital of richmond. however, many residents of columbus also left to fight in the war. bys jacket we are standing was worn by one of those residents. is an iconic red jacket that was worn by the columbus guards. this wa

on the c-span cities tour, we learn more about this man who helped to build colorado springs. >> to better understand who spencer penrose is, i thought i would read a bit from his open jury in 1939. it says he was more than a capitalist, philanthropist, he was a spirit, a hearing such as the pikes peak region had never seen before and would never see again. he was a scholar and gentlemen, a rugged individualist, a man of heart, as vigorous and sturdy as the great pioneering west he loved. he knew his own mind, and he experienced it. spencern words, who was penrose? i think of him more in terms of his legacy to the community. most obviousof the legacies is that he built the hotel here in colorado springs in 1980 team, one of the finest resorts in the world right here at the foot of pikes peak. the other is he created a inndation, the apple orchard spanish, and that was named after his home where he lived at the hotel, and that foundation he started in 1937, 2 years before his death, with $21 million, and today, it has grown to $580 million, and over the years, they have given away over $500